Description: It's been more than twenty years since the New Accents series helped to establish "theory" as a fundamental and continuing feature of literary studies. Since then, the need for short, powerful, cutting-edge accounts of, and comments on, new developments has increased sharply. In the case of Shakespeare, books with this sort of focus have not been readily available. Accents on Shakespeare aims to meet this need.

Gathering some of the most exciting scholarship in the field, these edited volumes apply and adapt theory in order to reflect and engage with the major developments in Shakespearean studies of the last ten years. These deeply engaging books will be an essential addition to the bookshelf of any student or enthusiast of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare continues to articulate the central problems of our intellectual inheritance. The plays of a Renaissance playwright still seem to be fundamental to our understanding and experience of modernity. Key philosophical questions concerning value, meaning and justice continue to resonate in Shakespeare's work. In the course of rethinking these issues, Philosophical Shakespeares focuses on and encourages the growing dissolution of boundaries between literature and philosophy.

Philosophical Shakespeares includes contributions from the first rank of contemporary criticism, drawing together original and previously unpublished essays by leading European and US scholars. The approach throughout is interdisciplinary and ranges from problem-centered readings of particular plays to more general elaborations on the significance of Shakespeare in relation to individual thinkers or philosophical traditions.

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